Meet the Wolves Targeted in B.C.’s Controversial Kill

…Gunning down wolves from helicopters is less likely to
control the wolf population of

British Columbia than inflame the public sentiment
against the government that condones the officially-sanctioned wolf kills…”The
political calculus changes. It’s getting towards that point in B.C. Clearly,
the environment is important to B.C. voters, and they no longer want to give
industry and government a free pass.” One herd, the South Selkirk, only has 18
surviving caribou. And in the South
Peace, the four herds there are on the decline. The province contends the wolf
is a key factor in the caribou decline…but others argue that shrinking habitat
from logging, other industry and things like recreational snowmobiling are
contributing most heavily to the mountain caribou’s mortality – not the grey
wolf.